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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video)

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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video)	label	Atun-Shei Films (Web Video)
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video)	comment	Atun-Shei Films is a historical education show in which its host (real name Andrew Rakich) reviews historical films, gives lectures about historical events, and uses fictional characters to depict a viewpoint and demonstrate how people in a time period behaved. His main characters and series include: Checkmate, Lincolnites!, a ten-episode series currently awaiting its finale in which a stand-in for himself ("Billy Yank") argues against a stand-in for modern believers in the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ("Johnny Reb"). The Witchfinder General (of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay), a staunchly devout, iron-hearted Puritan witch hunter who gives advice on matters legal, moral, and spiritual... from the perspective of 17th century New Englanders. In a period-accurate accent, no less. Frozen 50's Man, where an archetypal 50's-era Private Detective named Dick Jett gets transported to the modern era and has to contend with the temporal culture shock.Rakich is also an independent filmmaker, having created several short films. His first theatrically released feature-length project as director and producer is The Sudbury Devil, which follows two English-American witchfinders in New England in the aftermath of King Philip's War.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: Mostly defied in his videos on Native Americans, especially King Philip's War. While their culture is somewhat different from the white settlers', the Natives are still canny, politically-minded, and driven by most of the same things as their rivals. He's also up front and candid about the severity of the violence they often inflicted on white civilians. Atun-Shei is vocally critical of what he sees as The New World invoking this trope through its theme of "humanity decoupling from nature," pointing out that not only were the English themselves pretty close to nature as a pre-industrial agrarian society, but that the Native peoples were every bit as much the unquestioned masters of their environment as the Europeans were of theirs.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: One of his (many, many) criticisms of Gods and Generals. During the scene of the battle at what's most likely Miller's Cornfieldnote Famous as the site of the bloodiest fighting at the Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg, itself the bloodiest day of fighting in the entire war, he mocks the fact that the most obvious damage is done not to any of the men fighting, but to a soldier's water canteen ("He might get seriously dehydrated!"). He views this as irresponsible whitewashing of the scale of the violence involved in the Civil War, and in his opinion, you can't do the conflict justice without showing "rivers of blood."
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: The Confederate cavalry officer that Atun-Shei argues against in the first episode of Checkmate, Lincolnites! ("Confederate DESTROYS Yankee with FACTS and LOGIC") is this trope. Unlike Johnny Reb, who at least acknowledges that slavery was bad (even if he erroneously insists the Confederacy didn't fight to preserve that institution), this character is proud of the fact that he was a slave-owner.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: King James' 1597 treatise Daemonologie goes into detail about poltergeists, fairies, succubi, incubi, among other kinds of spirits and supernatural beings...but werewolves? Ridiculous old wives' tales!
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_16ddefda	type	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_16ddefda	comment	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: When Johnny Reb adds half a bottle of whiskey to a cup of coffee, it gets him so drunk so quickly that he starts prattling incoherently about black Confederate soldiersnote In reality, he was reading out a YouTube comment so full of spelling and grammar errors that Atun-Shei decided it would make Johnny sound like he was drunk before slurredly proclaiming that episode's Title Drop. Johnny also claims that the TRUE history of the American Civil War was revealed to him by his grandpappy one Lee-Jackson day after he had "consumed an entire 12-pack of Natty Light all by hisself".
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_185f3995	type	Memetic Badass
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_185f3995	comment	Memetic Badass: In-Universe; discussed in Checkmate, Lincolnites! regarding William Tecumseh Sherman's presence in the online "Union Gang".note A loose collection of online communities united in their fervent opposition to the Lost Cause movement. The omnipresence of Sherman memes is a frequent target of Johnny Reb's ire.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Once an Episode in Checkmate, Lincolnites! At the beginning of each episode, Johnny Reb will state a common Lost Cause argument, and when Billy Yank is naturally unable to condense a rebuttal into a 2-second sound bite, Johnny will turn to the camera and proudly proclaim CHECKMATE, LINCOLNITES! while the intro theme plays.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_1af2b763	type	Celebrity Resemblance
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_1af2b763	comment	Celebrity Resemblance: In the first episode of Checkmate, Lincolnites!, "Confederate DESTROYS Yankee with FACTS and LOGIC", the unnamed Confederate cavalry officer Atun-Shei argues with introduces him as "the dollar-store Jaime Lannister."
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Matt Beat from the Mr. Beat YouTube channel appears in "Wasn't it KINDA about STATES RIGHTS?!" as a newscaster.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: The "road agent spin," a draw specifically designed to look like you're offering your pistol to someone, only to suddenly whirl it around and fire, as featured in The Outlaw Josey Wales. He taught himself to do it, and one of his videos is a tutorial on it.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_1f4aba50	type	GenreAdultery
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_1f4aba50	comment	Genre Adultery: invoked Acknowledged in the introduction to his video on The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, which discusses a work of science fiction rather than history.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: His "Cannibals of the American West" talks about three examples of non-survival cannibalism that occurred in the American West. Conrad the Comrade, the (fake) murder victim and eventual perpetrator of the murder in "Frozen '50s Man" killed a fan and ate him in a series of smoothies. The cheery coroner who autopsies Conrad's body also can't resist taking a taste of one of his dismembered limbs.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Billy Yank holds up Joseph E. Johnston as the only Confederate general with a proper understanding of logistics and how to play the long game against a numerically and materially superior foe. But because his methods weren't very flashy, in spite of their effectiveness, he ended up being replaced by John Bell Hoodnote "Who sucks by the way!", who quickly lost Atlanta to William T. Sherman before being utterly annihilated by General George Thomas at Nashville, taking an entire state out of the Confederacy and ending his career.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_272108cd	type	ZigZaggedTrope
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_272108cd	comment	Johnny Reb is a bit of a zig-zag, given that a large portion of his dialogue is reading out comments. Rather than arguing that racism is good or justified though, he usually argues the idea the Confederacy somehow fought for reasons other than preserving slavery.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Andrew Rakich doesn't hide his disgust for the practice, and he goes further into depth on the subject in his video The Mundane Horror of American Slavery.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_29039706	type	Musical Number Annoyance
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_29039706	comment	Musical Number Annoyance: Johnny Reb becomes very upset when Billy Yank starts singing "John Brown's Body", a Union marching song about militant abolitionist John Brown, who attempted to start a mass slave uprising with a raid on an armory at the town of Harper's Ferry.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: "In Defense of Puritanism" points out that the iconic buckled hat was a later invention that started as a joke and is no more historically accurate than a horned viking helmet. The Witchfinder General costume still features it.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: General Ulysses S. Grant is this for Johnny Reb. Just hearing his name spoken aloud sends poor Johnny into a nightmare/hallucination of the "unconditional surrender speech" being read by Billy Yank in a raspy, demonic voice while the room flashes red and green.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The channel's name is taken from the character "Atun-shei the hoemaker" from Rakich's first movie, Alien, Baby!. Although the film showcases elements of many of his personal passions (The Mummy Trilogy, Nazi history, weird science fiction, classic private detective/G-men types, cannibalism), it's not incredibly relevant to his channel in general. Checkmate, Lincolnites! When the series first started out, it was very clearly Johnny Reb's show where he was inviting(or sometimes blackmailing) Atun-Shei/Billy Yank on, and was styled after one-sided internet debate shows that obviously have a bias against the guest speaker("Confederate DESTROYS Yankee with FACTS and LOGIC"), with Johnny outright insulting and belittling his opponent's views. However, around the same time that Billy Yank became a distinct character from Atun-Shei, it became clearer that he and Johnny co-hosted the show and it functions more as a good-faith debate show in its current form (although Billy Yank still generally comes out on top, and it's made clear that his views still mainly align with Atun-Shei's own views).
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: His description of Col. Vincent "The Clawhammer" A. Witcher fits this. In the title he calls Witcher "The Civil War's Biggest Weirdo", begins the video by saying this man was renowned for his barbarity, and describes a variety of violent acts of violence he committed both before and during the Civil War which horrified even his fellow Confederates. Of note are cases of him bashing the skulls of his enemies against rocks, which he did with hideous regularity. And for no reason anyone could discern, he did it all in a fancy "clawhammer" jacket.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_304f9e0b	type	Flowery Insults
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_304f9e0b	comment	Flowery Insults: Billy Yank tells Johnny Reb to bring out the "Big Guns":
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The QAnon members in Episode 2 of Frozen 50s Man may be horribly prejudiced people who believe in insane conspiracy theories but even they hate Nazis. Learning their leader works for Klaus causes them to have a Heel–Face Turn and leave to go rethink their lives.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_36dcbe1c	type	Switch to English
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_36dcbe1c	comment	Switch to English: In "My N@zi Roommate", Klaus begins discussing his plans with Adolf Hitler in German, before Adolf stops him, telling him that they should practice their English if they want to blend into the modern world, and they continue the conversation in English, although they exchange some brief German phrases again after encountering Klaus's roommate.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_39441318	type	Horny Vikings
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_39441318	comment	Horny Vikings: Subverted in "Who was Leif Erikson?", which starts with a man claiming to be Leif Erikson arriving in armor and roaring that he came to America to pillage in the name of Odin. Once he leaves, the real Leif Erikson arrives in the normal clothes of a well-to-do Norseman, denounces the first man as an imposter, and reveals that he (the real Erikson) is a Christian Momma's Boy. The rest of the video is Atun-Shei talking about how Leif Erikson was unusually kind and harmless for an explorer.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: At the beginning of Checkmate, Lincolnites!, Johnny Reb tunes out any argument Billy Yank makes, and frequently gets distracted or fidgets in his chair, not fully paying attention. By "Wasn't it KINDA about STATE'S RIGHTS!?!?!?!?!?" he's listening to Billy's every word earnestly, and looks like he's actually changing his mind. This makes it all the more tragic when he falls back into his old behavior at the end of "Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN!?!?!!?!?!".
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: Discussed in ""Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!"", which explains how Lost Cause mythology got its start, how it became widely accepted, and how it was eventually discredited. He's also done this to himself on occasion when he messes things up, particularly his video correcting a number of mistakes in his first King Philip's War video.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	In the Checkmate Lincolnites! episode "Was GENERAL SHERMAN a WAR CRIMINAL?!?!?!?!," Johnny Reb and Billy Yank open by discussing possible topics (the "black Confederate" myth, Historical Hero Upgrade for Robert E. Lee, whether or not the South only lost because of the North's overwhelming resources) before settling on Sherman, almost all of which ended up being the subject of, or at least addressed in, future episodes. The only one that wasn't was the one Johnny Reb himself dismissed as too stupid even for a "cartoon character" like him to believe, namely, that Confederate slaves were happy and treated well.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: Billy Yank and Johnny Reb take some of the more extreme members of the channel's audience to task in "Was GENERAL SHERMAN a WAR CRIMINAL?!?!?!?!", showing comments of people painting all modern-day Southerners as if they were Confederates.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Johnny Reb says "No it's not, and I say that as a Latino" in "Did Confederate Soldiers FIGHT for SLAVERY?!" Johnny is white and played by an actor from New England.note He was reading a YouTube comment from a viewer who may very well have been Latino, but in-universe all the comments are Johnny Reb's dialogue, since the show is a Socratic debate.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Senator Clint Sleazy from Frozen '50s Man. He's The Dragon of the (in-universe incarnation of) the Qanon organization and, like his fellow Q followers and MAGAheads, wants to overthrow the democratic government of America and replace it with a much more reactionary and authoritarian one. Satirically, at the end of the episode after his death, the FBI still tries to cover for him, since he was part of the ruling class and therefore is under their protection despite his efforts to dismantle American democracy.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger for "Wasn't it KINDA about STATES RIGHTS?!" shows Klaus visiting an aged, dying Alternate Self living in Argentina in The '70s.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_4b045a8a	comment	Villainous Valour: The cruel slaver Manuel Andry is described as acting in this manner. His slaves tried to kill him in his bed armed with axes and knives, and despite being unarmed himself he fought his way past them and escaped his plantation. Then, despite being injured, he mustered a militia of 80 other planters and ambushed Deslondes' army of 500 rebelling slaves. (A later video reexamining the revolt questions this sequence of events, noting that the only witness was Andry himself and that the physical layout of the plantation leaves more than a few questions.)
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The overall aesthetic of Checkmate, Lincolnites! took a while to settle. The first Checkmate, Lincolnites! has Atun-Shei in plainclothes, where subsequent videos have him in costume as "Billy Yank." The unnamed Confederate Cavalry Officer is there instead of "Johnny Reb" while the backdrop is just the confederate flag, rather than the union confederate flag hybrid. A more minor example, but from episode 1-3 (or 5 given the callback to the Whataboutism Drinking Game) the Union Soldier is Atun-Shei in a uniform instead of Billy Yank, and in the second episode Johnny Reb is implied to be the confederate cavalry officer from the first episode. The channel as a whole took a while to find its identity. It first began with Atun-Shei applying his background in film and history reviewing historical films and giving his opinion on how to "fix" them (and sometimes not even historical films; one video had him pleading "Please Don't Screw Up Legally Blonde 3", of all films). Then, he decided to focus on his background as a tour guide in historical reenactments to tell anecdotes ranging from local New Orleans to Civil War-era and Old West stories in the style of a history tour guide. It was during the debate surrounding Confederate monuments that was revived in light of the racial protests in the U.S. in 2020 that the channel began to take the form it would become known for, when Atun-Shei took inspiration from ContraPoints and used the backlash from Confederate apologists to his video "Were the Confederate Monuments of New Orleans Racist?" to create Checkmate, Lincolnites!, and from then on, create other characters such as the Witchfinder-General and Klaus the Nazi to present other people in history.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Parodied in Frozen '50s Man. By Episode 2, Alexis Buttle is clearly developing feelings for the misogynistic Politically Incorrect Hero Dick Jett despite his constant hitting on her, except it's almost beat-for-beat like an actual romance subplot from a '50s detective movie, and also explained in detail by FBI agent Gina Bunkerson directly in front of both her and Dick during the Unfolding Plan Montage.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: "This hotel has a dark secret" discusses the real-life example of Joseph DeJarnette, a Neo-Confederate Social Darwinist who used his insane asylum, the Western State Hospital (which was later converted into the hotel featured in the video), for sterilizing thousands of mentally ill or mentally disabled patients. Andrew also notes that, unlike common fictional depictions, DeJarnette maintained a warm, comforting bedside manner and was generally kind and gentle to his patients and sincerely believed that sterilizing them was the best way to release them into the general population, something which he thinks is even scarier than a cackling madman, since it meant he was more easily able to manipulate the people under his care and their loved ones into accepting what he was doing to them.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Discussed in "Confederate Soldiers DIDN'T fight for SLAVERY!(Or did they?)". Billy Yank makes the point that Gods and Generals not only does such a bad job of portraying history, but also of representing humans as complex beings that watching Stonewall Jackson poop would be a more accurate representation of real life. Also discussed in his video essay on Terrence Malick's The New World (2005), where he criticizes the film for its highly romanticized depiction of the Powhatan people, and the idea that they "lived at peace with nature". He notes that the film avoids acknowledging some of the less glamorous aspects of "living at peace with nature"...like having to poop in a hand-dug latrine.note Atun-Shei notes in a few videos that he's an avid hiker who's been on several multi-day hiking excursions—meaning that he knows this experience very well.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Dick Jett, the titular "Frozen 50's Man." Justified by Deliberate Values Dissonance, given that he is from the 1950s, and doesn't even have a good idea of what "politically correct" means. The Witchfinder-General qualifies in the unproduced script where he fights Dracula, for a forgiving definition of "hero."
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Checkmate, Lincolnites! is a series of videos examining popular pro-CSA myths about the American Civil War. The concept is discussed in several videos of his; in general, he's more forgiving of this than most of the YouTube history crowd, and he particularly defends Braveheart as a masterpiece of filmmaking despite its myriad inaccuracies in the details. He even made a video literally titled "No, Historical Inaccuracy in Movies DOESN'T Matter", arguing that the minutiae (weapon styles, clothing styles, etc.) usually focused on by history nerds just isn't that important in the grand scheme of things — furthermore, most people know (and don't care) that blockbuster movies aren't a great source of historical education. That said, he's less forgiving if the movie has substantial or obvious implications for modern society, such as Gods and Generals' whitewashed portrayal of American slavery, which he argues gives ammunition to modern racists and the Lost Cause movement. He later came to disagree with his own assessment, feeling it was too defensive of films like Braveheart and pointing out that he himself, with limited means, was able to create a fairly accurate film about witch hunters and so big Hollywood productions really have no excuse.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_5e7163c9	comment	Alternative Character Interpretation: invoked While Billy Yank acknowledges that it's possible Nathan Bedford Forrest's call for peace and tolerance between whites and blacks was borne out of a genuine change of heart, he believes it's also possible that Forrest decided a show of magnanimity would suit his interests.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: In "How New England Yankees Conquered the World", Atun-Shei reads a list of men from the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts who died at sea. It takes him over five minutes. At the end he reveals that the list only involves men who died in 1879, and that even then, most of those men died in a single freak storm.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: If his deep love for Ravenous weren't a dead giveaway, he's helpfully got a whole video about cannibalism stories in the old West. And the cheery coroner in the first episode of Frozen '50s Man can be seen enjoying a taste from a dismembered limb during an autopsy. Also, his "Were the Confederate Monuments of New Orleans Racist?" video has this gem: In addition to American (and Nazi) history, he has a passion for the history of film as an art and a medium, and many of his videos examine both. He's also a big defender of Mel Gibson as a filmmaker, arguing that his films in general, and Braveheart in particular, are landmark moments in cinematic history and deserve to be recognized as more than mindless mass entertainment, mocked and nitpicked for their Artistic License – History, or tainted by Mel Gibson's political and religious views.note Keep in mind that the channel's early "Fixing" videos featured a character named "Doctor von Murderall", basically a prototype of the later Klaus the Nazi character, whose dialogue consisted almost entirely of things Gibson said during his infamous diatribe during his DUI arrest. This was the basis for his impetus in his response video to Brandon F after Brandon criticized the historical inaccuracies in Gibson's films. He's done an extensive series of videos on King Philip's War, which he likes to remind the audience is the bloodiest war per-capita in American history despite being mostly forgotten today, and even self-published a strategy boardgame called "Flintlock and Tomahawk" about it. While he had settled in New Orleans, Louisiana by the time he started making videos, Atun-Shei originally hails from Massachusetts, and most videos involving New England find an excuse to include it; the full title of his self-admitted favorite character, the Witchfinder-General, is "The Witchfinder-General for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay."note Helps that Massachusetts was home of the early Puritans, of which the Witchfinder-General is a sendoff. That being said, it also has an element of Self-Deprecation, such as the video in which the Witchfinder-General defends the state referring to him as "The Original Masshole" in the thumbnail. An odd case of something being constantly present in a work because the creator rejects it; in various videos, such as "Why Gods and Generals Is Neo-Confederate Propaganda (And Also Sucks)", Atun-Shei explained that the reason his Civil War-related videos are dedicated to debunk the Lost Cause of the Confederacy negationist ideology is because he once actually believed in it for a while, for which he expresses deep regret.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_67b9dd47	type	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_67b9dd47	comment	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Lampshaded in Frozen '50s Man. When Dick Jett receives news of his partner Bing Fluffernutter's death, he does this over the phone, but the person on the other end isn't amused.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Johnny Reb makes Billy Yank eat his words talking about the northerners who opposed the Indian Removal Act living in states with names like Massachusetts, which they basically stole from the Native Americans who had lived there for thousands of years.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Bill Racehate in Episode 2 of Frozen '50's Man tells everyone at the table that he'd commit suicide via gun-in-the-mouth if he ever ate soy. When Alexis Buttal brings a vegan burger to his battle with Jett, and he consumes it to top up on meat, he finds out and calmly puts his money where his mouth is... no pun intended.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_714342fb	comment	Thebes Karnak, who speaks with an...interesting accent, likes to put the head of his cane in his mouth, and outright claims that his sexuality is ambiguous. Becomes less ambiguous(at least in Dick's mind) when Dick discovers a ticket to a Judy Garland film festival in his wallet with the tagline "Bring your boyfriends!"note Garland was a noted LGBT ally in the '50s and '60s, to the point where gay men of the time used "Dorothy" as a code word for identifying each other. He's also clearly based on Joel Cairo from The Maltese Falcon (1941), who was gay in the source material but was toned down to (very strong) subtext in the film itself.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_714741cc	type	Like Reality, Unless Noted
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_714741cc	comment	Like Reality, Unless Noted: Frozen 50's Man appears to take place in a world like this, where it appears to be the 2020s like in reality, except cryogenics work, the COVID-19 Pandemic doesn't appear to have happened (so far), and the Q of QAnon is secretly a time-traveling Nazi with mystical occult powers.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_7243f3cb	type	Dark Fantasy
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_7243f3cb	comment	Dark Fantasy: The sketch "Historically 'Inspired' Fantasy Settings" shows a show of this genre being nitpicked by the lead actor. It turns out the most vulgar swear words of the middle ages ("By God's Blood") would sound silly to modern ears.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Klaus the Nazi, for obvious reasons. In his "Were the Confederate Monuments of New Orleans Racist?" video, Atun-Shei uses a meter to show how racist said monuments were - the lowest rating was "Innocent" (which none of the monuments were rated as) and the highest was "Hitler!". He gave the monument to the Battle of Liberty Place, which was built to commemorate the White League's violent attack on city hall, a rating of Hitler. Johnny Reb is a bit of a zig-zag, given that a large portion of his dialogue is reading out comments. Rather than arguing that racism is good or justified though, he usually argues the idea the Confederacy somehow fought for reasons other than preserving slavery.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_79a80b74	type	Fair for Its Day
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_79a80b74	comment	Fair for Its Day: Invoked by the Witchfinder-General, who defends the Salem Witch Trials by pointing out that the condemned were tried first, that witnesses gave corroborating testimonies, and that many of the accused witches even confessed to the charges. To somebody who believed in witchcraft it would all look like a Smoking Gun. The later "In Defense of Puritanism" video discusses the important contributions men like the Witchfinder-General made to modern democratic egalitarianism, in spite of their intolerance towards others.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: When discussing "The Dark Deeds of Freydis Eriksdottir", the strict Norse ideals of masculinity are central to the saga, as Thorvald was compelled to murder Helgi and Finnbogi to affirm his manliness even though they were innocent of any wrongdoing. Atun-Shei closes the video by encouraging men to drink Cosmopolitans and practice seidr magic (a very feminine pursuit in Viking culture).
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: In "Did the CONFEDERACY have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!", when the topic of Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest comes up:
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Billy Yank delivers a long-overdue one to Johnny Reb in "Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!?" after Johnny Reb falls back on his old beliefs once again despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Johnny Reb. Almost all his claims come from real Lost Causers in the Atun-Shei comment section, and some of them are more wacky than others. A crown example of this is when he repeats a claim that the South was paying 80% of all U.S. taxes in the 1860s, long before the Income Tax existed.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: several characters in the various series on the channel. Johnny Reb can get a little overwhelmed with himself when thinking about a victorious South ("My heart FLUTTERS AT THE THOUGHT") or when he gives voice to a particularly unhinged commenter ("DAMN, DAMN YANKEES! REBEL YEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLL!") The Witchfinder General is more of a Cold Ham, but still chews the scenery frequently. Look no further than the Signing Off Catchphrase he gives at the end of each video ("Thou art a wretched sinner, utterly undeserving o' God's love...") Klaus the Nazi, almost constantly.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_89fb838b	type	Cold Ham
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_89fb838b	comment	The Witchfinder General is more of a Cold Ham, but still chews the scenery frequently. Look no further than the Signing Off Catchphrase he gives at the end of each video ("Thou art a wretched sinner, utterly undeserving o' God's love...")
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: In "Did the CONFEDERACY Have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!" Johnny Reb makes a point then smugly asks Billy Yank how that humble pie tastes. Cut to reveal he meant the literal pie Billy is eating. When Johnny Reb accuses Billy Yank of conducting centuries-old military campaigns "From the comfort of [his] armchair", Billy gets confused and points out that his chair doesn't have any arms.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_8e803915	type	Strategy Versus Tactics
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_8e803915	comment	Strategy Versus Tactics: In "Did the CONFEDERACY Have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!", Billy Yank points out that many of the Confederacy's most famous victories were tactically impressive, but strategically pointless — as brilliant as their maneuvers may have been, they didn't actually do much to further the Confederacy's war aims besides temporarily defeating and driving off Union armies, and bled manpower and supplies they could scarce afford to lose. In contrast, Union commanders like Grant and Sherman didn't score nearly as many "epic" victories in battle (though, as Vicksburg shows, they had their fair share), but rather aimed at tearing out the Confederacy's logistical base at its roots, while grinding down the Confederacy one region at a time.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_90b66e22	comment	Bing Fluffernutter, Dick Jett's old partner in the FBI, tells Dick that he looks cute today, has a rather flamboyant manner, and is completely immune to Miss Dubois' charms. It's never elaborated upon, but it's unclear whether he's Camp Gay or Camp Straight. If Dick was comfortable working with him, it's likely that he at least thought he was the latter.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_91652846	type	Hero-Worshipper
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_91652846	comment	Hero-Worshipper: Deconstructed in the episode discussing the genetic lineage of the Lost Cause movement, "Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!" Billy points out that any actual qualities of the Confederate generals as men have long ago been buried under quasi-religious hero-worship, with the transparently self-serving motive of reworking history to cast the South as victims, the North as authoritarians crushing their liberties, and slavery as whatever it needs to be to maintain the previous two points in the context of the current Overton window of how acceptable open racism is.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_956da99f	type	Outside Joke
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_956da99f	comment	Outside Joke: In "Wasn't it KINDA about STATE'S RIGHTS!?!?!?!?!?", Johnny Reb out of nowhere asks Billy Yank if he's an Anarcho-Syndicalist. Billy has no idea what that isnote Anarcho-Syndicalism believes in achieving Anarchism through empowered labor unions, most famously seen in the Catalina region during the Spanish Civil War, and says that he isn't.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_95ef5b0d	type	Symbol Swearing
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_95ef5b0d	comment	Symbol Swearing: A video analyzing a scene from The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc is titled "The Most Fµçкed-Up Scene in Movie History." Not a swear word, but the intention is the same. Due to YouTube's crackdown on Nazi content, videos on the subject (usually involving Klaus the Nazi) has "Nazi" written as "N@zi", such as "My N@zi Roommate" or "Ancient Aryans: The History of Crackpot N@zi Archaeology."
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Discussed in the Checkmate, Lincolnites! episode "Did the CONFEDERACY Have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!", which examines the popular claim that the Confederate Army's leaders were universally superior tacticians compared to the Union Army's leaders, and the related claim that the Union only won because they had more abundant resources and manpower. Billy Yank argues that this claim is (at the very least) a gross oversimplification of historical fact, and suggests that it was partially propagated by Confederate generals who didn't want to take responsibility for their blunders on the battlefield.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_98a150f3	type	Excrement Statement
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_98a150f3	comment	Excrement Statement: In "That Time the Ladies of New Orleans Peed on Union Soldiers", the rich white women of New Orleans would make a point of harassing the occupying Union Soldiers - in particular emptying chamberpots onto the heads of Union Soldiers passing below. Since it was taboo for men to criticize high society women, even when they had valid reason to, the soldiers just accepted it. When General Benjamin Butler ignored this taboo by giving orders to treat ladies who disrespected Union Soldiers as prostitutes, it caused global outrage and cost Butler his post. The local response to the rich white ladies of New Orleans was to print Butler's face on the bottom of chamber pots. Atun-Shei reveals that the Confederate Memorial Hall still sells such chamber pots, and strongly implies he himself peed in it.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: In "Freedom or Death: The Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811", Atun-Shei describes a revolt of Louisiana slaves led by Charles Deslondes against the white planters led by Manuel Andry. Though the rebels were defeated and killed to a man, Governor Clayborne was the real victor. He used this to accelerate Louisiana's statehood and entrench the American planters as the political power in the state.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: One features in "Frozen '50s Man ~ Episode 1". Conrad the Comrade, a gay communist YouTuber, cheated on his husband with a fan in his husband's bed. Then he garrotes his lover to death on video, eats the victim's corpse to hide the evidence, and then kills the victim's boyfriend when he discovers Conrad's guilt.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the Checkmate Lincolnites! episode "Was GENERAL SHERMAN a WAR CRIMINAL?!?!?!?!," Johnny Reb and Billy Yank open by discussing possible topics (the "black Confederate" myth, Historical Hero Upgrade for Robert E. Lee, whether or not the South only lost because of the North's overwhelming resources) before settling on Sherman, almost all of which ended up being the subject of, or at least addressed in, future episodes. The only one that wasn't was the one Johnny Reb himself dismissed as too stupid even for a "cartoon character" like him to believe, namely, that Confederate slaves were happy and treated well. In "Did the CONFEDERACY have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!", Johnny lists off some of the Confederacy's greatest generals, starting with obvious picks like Lee, Jackson and Forrest. Billy offers up James Longstreet, only for Johnny to say "We don't talk about him!" This foreshadows their discussion in "Is Civil War history being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!" when Billy describes how James Longstreet, despite being one of the Confederacy's best generals, was made an Unperson after the war for daring to support the integration and enfranchisement of slaves.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9d27a8be	type	Army of Thieves and Whores
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9d27a8be	comment	Army of Thieves and Whores: His video "America's First Conspiracy" examines the conscription practices of New England towns during King Philip's War, finding that whenever possible, social undesirables such as criminals, drunkards, vagabonds, and others were pressed into service while the sons of well-to-do, respectable families stayed home.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: The subject of King James' 1597 work Daemonologie, which Andrew turned into a film adaptation. The treatise was the major textual basis of the work of witchfinders in Britain and later, by extension, England's American colonies in the 17th century.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: Billy Yank points out to Johnny Reb that, although James Longstreet was one of the Confederacy's most able commanders and led the Confederate Army to multiple victories, there are practically no monuments to him in the South or elsewhere, and he's virtually absent from the post-war hagiography of Confederate leaders like Lee, Jackson, or Early. Billy attributes this to Longstreet's defense of reintegration with the Union and, crucially, to his support of Black civil rights in the Reconstruction era — he even led city defense forces against a white supremacist mob at the Battle of Liberty Place. Billy cites this as evidence that Confederate monuments are really about white supremacy and whitewashing historical realities, rather than honoring the dead or memorializing important history and people as their defenders often claim.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a01f88a7	comment	On the flip-side: Billy Yank is generally an ardent defender of the Union, and he's pretty committed to dismantling most of the popular talking points espoused by Confederate apologists—but even he's willing to admit that some common criticisms of the Union are more-or-less accurate. He freely admits that the Union didn't enter the Civil War to end slavery, that most "free states" in the 1860s were still appallingly racist by today's standards, and that George B. McClellan was just as bad a general as everyone says.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: In order to get into Senator Sleazy's QAnon meeting, Dick Jett tells the unabridged truth when questioned by Bill Racehate at the door about why he was touching his ear.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Subverted in "Freedom or Death: The Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811". After the German Coast Uprising was suppressed and the rebels massacred, they were painted by the triumphant planters as bloodthirsty savages. Yet in truth the rebels only killed two people and were remarkably organized and meticulously planned in advance. Atun-shei also stated that Deslondes' two right-hand men in the revolt, Kook and Quamana, were veterans from the Akan Kingdom and were likely trained in military tactics.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a0f3c6a0	type	Succubi and Incubi
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a0f3c6a0	comment	Succubi and Incubi: Succubi and incubi were among the most feared demons in the early modern Anglosphere, and Daemonologie goes into detail about them.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a3a838c7	type	Values Resonance
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a3a838c7	comment	Values Resonance: invokedDiscussed in "In Defense of Puritanism", which attempts to recontextualize the Puritan movement, not just as intolerant religious fanatics (although it also makes no bones about their flaws, nor does it attempt to excuse them), but as important thinkers in the foundations of modern liberal democracy, pushing such principles as equality before the law, democratic government by consent of the governed, universal literacy and education, and, while they often failed to properly see the humanity in other peoples, human brotherhood and human rights.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "Did the Confederacy have Better Generals?" examines the claims that Confederate generals were superior both at military matters and in terms of morality.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Dick Jett, the titular "Frozen 50's Man." Justified by Deliberate Values Dissonance, given that he is from the 1950s, and doesn't even have a good idea of what "politically correct" means.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ab8f31bd	type	Equal-Opportunity Offender
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ab8f31bd	comment	Equal-Opportunity Offender: Frozen '50s Man mocks all sides of the political spectrum through the lens of its Fish out of Temporal Water protagonist Dick Jett. Episode 1 satirizes the online left and Breadtube, while Episode 2 satirizes MAGA republicanism and Qanon. Episode 2 also ends with Dick getting kidnapped by ANTIFA.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_abe0f934	type	Dissimile
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile: When Billy Yank beats Johnny Reb in a game of chess, Johnny claims it was inevitable that Billy would have one because of all his "industry and naval power and such"note Alluding to a common claim of the Lost Cause version of history where the South lost purely because of the overwhelming resources and manpower of the north as opposed to the South wasting their supplies on flashy Pyrrhic Victories and losing a war of attrition, which obviously don't exist in Chess whatsoever.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: In his review of The Outlaw Josey Wales, he says that while he understands the bitterness many Confederate veterans felt after the war, his empathy doesn't blind him to the fact that nothing can justify the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	That the Confederacy was doomed from the outset and had no realistic chance of winning the American Civil War because of the overwhelming difference in resources between the Confederacy and the Union. While he goes out of his way to make it clear that, yes, the difference in industrial capacity and manpower between the two sides really was that big, Billy points out that plenty of other historical wars with huge differentials in military capacity haven't always ended in favor of the side with the bigger numbers. While the South were definitely the underdogs, they had good shot of winning, assuming they could break the North's will to keep up the fight. And while, yes, the difference in resources played a part, their ultimate loss owed just as much (if not more) to their generals' pursuit of flashy tactical victories that didn't really further their war aims and bled out resources they couldn't afford to lose, especially once the North started promoting strategically-minded commanders that actually knew how to properly bring their superior resources to bear.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: Indigenous Weapons and Tactics of King Philip's War showcases the decorations indigenous warriors put on their weapons during King Philip's War, including wampum inlay, accessories hanging off flintlocks, and engraving or carving warclubs. Since they were intended for combat, they were less flashy than most examples of this trope, sticking to unobtrusive decorations that would demonstrate status without sacrificing utility.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Johnny Reb's personality is based on Youtube comments, so the extent of his racism varies from episode to episode. One comment, however, was so racist that Atun-Shei decided that it didn't fit Johnny Reb, and wrote it as Klaus the Nazi possessing Johnny and having to be exorcised. Despite being an unapologetic admirer of the Confederacy and a proponent of the "Lost Cause" ideology, it's made clear that Johnny Reb believes that slavery was wrong, and that he would never openly express racist sentiments. On the flip-side: Billy Yank is generally an ardent defender of the Union, and he's pretty committed to dismantling most of the popular talking points espoused by Confederate apologists—but even he's willing to admit that some common criticisms of the Union are more-or-less accurate. He freely admits that the Union didn't enter the Civil War to end slavery, that most "free states" in the 1860s were still appallingly racist by today's standards, and that George B. McClellan was just as bad a general as everyone says.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In several videos, such as "Why Gods and Generals Is Neo-Confederate Propaganda (And Also Sucks)" and "When Movies Were Magic", he uses Paul Blart: Mall Cop as an example of the nadir of filmmaking. "Ancient Aryans: The History of Crackpot N@zi Archaeology" ends with Klaus the Nazi appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast. When Rogan starts rambling about thoughts he had while on drugs, Klaus shoots himself.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Humorously invoked in "Wasn’t it KINDA About STATES’ RIGHTS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" in a discussion about Shays' Rebellion.note Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising mainly in Western Massachusetts response to citizens being in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on individuals and their trades, led by American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays, and which unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the state government.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In a series where he and Billy Yank regularly put away lots of alcohol, and usually pretty strong stuff, Johnny Reb accuses Ulysses S. Grant of being a drunk. They're even literally pouring out and toasting with liquor as they discuss the question of Grant's alcohol abuse. Johnny Reb makes Billy Yank eat his words talking about the northerners who opposed the Indian Removal Act living in states with names like Massachusetts, which they basically stole from the Native Americans who had lived there for thousands of years.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: In the episode of Checkmate Lincolnites! focusing on General Sherman, at one point Johnny Reb claims Sherman was only good at attacking civilians and couldn't win a real fight. This causes the normally restrained Billy Yank to pull out his pistol and shove it in Johnny Reb's face, forcing him to tearfully repeat what he just said. Subverted in that right after this he holsters his gun and calmly explains why Johnny Reb's claim was untrue.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_bd9f9111	type	Strawman Has a Point
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_bd9f9111	comment	Strawman Has a Point: In-universe. Despite his arguments primarily consisting of Lost Cause canards that can be easily refuted with a bit of critical analysis of history, Johnny Reb occasionally does manage to hit the nail on the head about the hypocrisy or wrongdoing of the North, such as when he correctly pointed out that while the Northern states were pearl-clutching about the crisis that led to the Missouri Compromise being a "Southern Evil," there were still a great deal of slaves in the North due to most of their states adopting a very slow and gradual abolition process. Of course, he also often treats these like "Gotcha" arguments that entirely refute Billy Yank's rhetoric and is often flabbergasted when Billy concedes the point to him, meaning it's more Downplayed than other examples of this trope.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_be239f55	type	Noble Confederate Soldier
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_be239f55	comment	Noble Confederate Soldier: Discussed in his video on The Outlaw Josey Wales, which he believes does this trope much better than Gods and Generals. Josey's not fighting for the South or "states' rights", nor is he interested in justifying either. His beef with the Union lies solely against the Redlegs who massacred his family and killed his surrendering men.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_beb9a361	comment	The Witchfinder-General qualifies in the unproduced script where he fights Dracula, for a forgiving definition of "hero."
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: In "Did Ancient Egyptians Circumnavigate Africa?", he questions what the motivations of Hanno the Navigator and his men were when attempting to capture the female gorilainote Usually identified with gorillas, but possibly also chimpanzees or bonobos from the island they had camped on, especially since Hanno's records imply they thought of these creatures as simply hairy, ugly humans.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c4b0faae	type	Can't Hold His Liquor
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c4b0faae	comment	When Johnny Reb adds half a bottle of whiskey to a cup of coffee, it gets him so drunk so quickly that he starts prattling incoherently about black Confederate soldiersnote In reality, he was reading out a YouTube comment so full of spelling and grammar errors that Atun-Shei decided it would make Johnny sound like he was drunk before slurredly proclaiming that episode's Title Drop.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c6bc89f7	comment	Curb Stomp Cushion: Billy Yank usually dominates his discussions with Johnny Reb and it's his perspective that wins out. That being said, Johnny does make the occasional point that Billy is unable to refute and sometimes forces Billy to acknowledge some hypocrisy or moral shortcoming on the pro-Union side, so things aren't completely one-sided.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Klaus the Nazi possessing Johnny Reb and being exorcised by the Witchfinder-General in the Checkmate, Lincolnites! episode "Was It REALLY the WAR of NORTHERN AGGRESSION?!?!?!" is a parody of a similar scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Most episodes of Checkmate Lincolnites! contain at least one quote or paraphrased quote from 1776. "Ancient Aryans: The History of Crackpot N@zi Archaeology" introduces Atun-Shei writing "FACTS" on a chalkboard in a similar way as to how Indiana Jones is first shown as a professor writing "NEOLITHIC" on a chalkboard in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Both are even dressed similarly. The video footage in the first part of "In Defense of Puritanism" is a shout-out to A Field in England, which is set during the English Civil War and features similar unsettling, Deliberately Monochrome shots of an open field, characters tripping on psychedelic mushrooms, and a black circle engulfing the screen. He acknowledges the film as an inspiration in the "Ain't Nothin Cheap About These Laughs" Q&A — it, and Andrew himself indulging on psychedelic drugs.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_c9597a03	comment	Later, in "Wasn't it KINDA about STATES RIGHTS?!", flashbacks to scenes from earlier episodes occur repeatedly, often with jokes about how long it's been going on. A in-universe news broadcast also repeats a description from an earlier episode as a "wildly unpopular YouTube show."
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_cd3a1755	type	Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_cd3a1755	comment	Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Dick Jett tries to incapacitate Bill Racehate with a karate chop to the neck after getting caught snooping around Senator Sleazy's office, but Bill effortlessly shrugs it off. Dick follows it up with several more karate chops, but Bill just laughs and punches him in the head.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: During one of Johnny Reb's rants about wild hypotheticals that would lead to Southern independence (such as Sherman spontaneously combusting and Britain joining the war) he makes a passing reference to Judah P. Benjamin ("The Jewish Confederate") opening the Ark of the Covenant to vaporize the Army of the Potomac a la the villains of Raiders of the Lost Ark, who keep in mind, are Nazis:
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_cf16cfa9	type	Golden Mean Fallacy
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_cf16cfa9	comment	Golden Mean Fallacy: In "Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!", Billy Yank points out that history isn't about giving equal amounts of attention to all viewpoints because some viewpoints can be biased or flat-out wrong, citing how what Johnny Reb says is the "Southern side" of Civil War history is literally just Lost Cause mythology with little to no basis in fact and shouldn't be considered as equally important or valid as legitimate historical consensus backed by evidence.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_cf57aca1	type	Orwellian Retcon
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_cf57aca1	comment	Orwellian Retcon: Atun-Shei changed the title of "Confederate Soldiers DIDN'T fight for SLAVERY!(Or did they?)" to "Did Confederate Soldiers FIGHT for SLAVERY!?" to make it fall in line with the Driving Question Theme Naming of the other episodes, as well as altering how the show used to very clearly be controlled by Johnny Reb, who would presumably make the titles sound more biased in his favor.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_d1ebedfb	type	Armchair Military
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_d1ebedfb	comment	When Johnny Reb accuses Billy Yank of conducting centuries-old military campaigns "From the comfort of [his] armchair", Billy gets confused and points out that his chair doesn't have any arms.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_d558b013	comment	In "Did the CONFEDERACY have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!", Johnny lists off some of the Confederacy's greatest generals, starting with obvious picks like Lee, Jackson and Forrest. Billy offers up James Longstreet, only for Johnny to say "We don't talk about him!" This foreshadows their discussion in "Is Civil War history being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!" when Billy describes how James Longstreet, despite being one of the Confederacy's best generals, was made an Unperson after the war for daring to support the integration and enfranchisement of slaves.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: He gives a lot of special attention to the history of New England (where he grew up) and Louisiana (where he currently lives).
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When "Q" appears in person in Episode 2 of Frozen '50's Man, and is revealed to be Klaus the Nazi himself, on top of some kind of Humanoid Abomination, the remaining Q cultists immediately abandon the movement, cutting Dick and Alexis loose from their imprisonment and deciding to rethink their lives.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_dbf877ac	type	Sympathetic Slave Owner
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_dbf877ac	comment	Sympathetic Slave Owner: The Mundane Horror of American Slavery deconstructs this archetype:
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Inverted with the character of Kit Thistle from "Frozen '50s Man". Despite being being publicly known as a flamboyant pansexual man in a polyamorous relationship, Thistle's terrible Dark Secret was that he was actually heterosexual and desired a monogamous relationship. Conrad blackmailed him into aiding his scheme by threatening to out him.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_dc3e1299	type	Argentina Is Nazi-Land
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_dc3e1299	comment	Argentina Is Nazi-Land: A passing mention is made in "My N@zi Roommate" that Klaus the Nazi came from Argentina to answer Atun-Shei's ad for a roommate. The Stinger for "Wasn't it KINDA about STATES RIGHTS?!" shows Klaus visiting an aged, dying Alternate Self living in Argentina in The '70s.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: Combined with Early-Installment Weirdness, Checkmate, Lincolnites! clearly plays fast and loose with its own continuity, usually for laughs. The first episode has Atun-Shei, as himself in plain clothes, debating a Confederate cavalry officer, and it eventually ends with Atun-Shei shooting him dead. While from the second episode onwards Johnny Reb is established as he usually would appear afterwards (as in, as a Confederate soldier rather than a Confederate cavalry officer) and through the second and third episodes the person he argues against resembles Billy Yank more, said person is still Atun-Shei — in the second episode he recalls shooting the Confederate cavalry officer, and in the third he appears in plain clothes again at the beginning, telling Johnny Reb that he's tired of making videos debunking Confederate myths since they appear to be fruitless, only to be convinced back into arguing with Johnny Reb when the latter tells him that now he'll be free to claim that the Civil War was fought over tariffs and taxes. And even in regards of Johnny Reb, when Atun-Shei asks him in the second episode if he wasn't the Confederate cavalry officer he shot dead in the previous episode, Johnny Reb denies it... even though Atun-Shei points out that he has a blood-stained Confederate cavalry officer uniform at his feet, causing Johnny Reb to get nervous and segue away to the show's intro. This gets even more confusing in "Wasn't it KINDA about STATES' RIGHTS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!", when Billy Yank specifically says that he and Johnny talked about the Corwin Amendment in Episode 1 before flashing back to Atun-Shei talking with the Cavalry Officer, seemingly making the definitive statement that that is him and Johnny.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: His documentary "In Defense of Puritanism" is an examination of how the popular image of the Puritans as backwards, austere, intolerant fanatics is a gross oversimplification that erases their more positive aspects and achievements. While there is some truth to the stereotypes, Puritanism's nature as a decentralized and non-hierarchical movement resulted in multiple schools of thought emerging under the umbrella, meaning it wasn't a monolith that can be painted with a broad brush. The prejudices many Puritans held can't be justified, but they become understandable when viewed in context and it's debatable as to whether they were actually particularly bad in practice by the standards of the era. Finally, they were pioneers of ideas like freedom of speech and equality before the law, which have become widely cherished American values.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e1f4de4e	type	Common Knowledge
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e1f4de4e	comment	"Common Knowledge":invoked A major point of Checkmate, Lincolnites! is to attempt to dispel many commonly accepted facts about the Civil War and the Confederate States that have helped colorize the conflict. Some examples include: That the Confederacy was doomed from the outset and had no realistic chance of winning the American Civil War because of the overwhelming difference in resources between the Confederacy and the Union. While he goes out of his way to make it clear that, yes, the difference in industrial capacity and manpower between the two sides really was that big, Billy points out that plenty of other historical wars with huge differentials in military capacity haven't always ended in favor of the side with the bigger numbers. While the South were definitely the underdogs, they had good shot of winning, assuming they could break the North's will to keep up the fight. And while, yes, the difference in resources played a part, their ultimate loss owed just as much (if not more) to their generals' pursuit of flashy tactical victories that didn't really further their war aims and bled out resources they couldn't afford to lose, especially once the North started promoting strategically-minded commanders that actually knew how to properly bring their superior resources to bear. Ulysses S. Grant being an alcoholic who would just throw troops into battle and win by sheer numbers. Grant did have alcohol issues, but he never drank before a battle, and was more of a binge/social drinker. He also wasn't someone who just threw men to die, but rather was a strategic general, and he had a large loss of troops due to just how intense factors outside his control often were. The idea that "slavery was on its way out". Atun points out that likely had the South won or at least won enough to remain separated from the Union, they likely would have adapted slavery into the rising technological advancements to come rather than cease to exist. So long as slavery was profitable in any way, it would have remained. It's maybe possible it would have died down, but very likely not, definitely not without heavy external diplomatic pressure and almost certainly not within the original Confederate generation. The idea that Lincoln was a racist towards black slaves. Atun-Shei doesn't deny that Lincoln and the North didn't initially make the conflict about slavery rather than about stopping the South from breaking away, but he points out that many of the "Lincoln was a racist" arguments draw on sources from before he became President, and were likely just Lincoln trying to win the office however he could at a time when the majority of his voters were white supremacists. Lincoln wasn't a die-hard abolitionist, but he did take anti-slavery positions throughout his time in political office and did eventually make abolition a major war aim, something which it's pointed out cost him in the short term, with the Union army experiencing many desertions, but ultimately spelt the Confederacy's doom by drying up all their hopes of foreign aid forever. An entire episode was devoted to the history of "states' rights" as a political philosophy to show how it increasingly ceased to have any real connection to actual libertarianism or local vs. federal government sentiment, how it became deeply intertwined with slavery and Southern sectarianism, and, ultimately, how many Confederates were eager to totally abandon it as the fig leaf that it was in favor of increasing centralization and nationalization as soon as they started to make their own country, with many embracing outright reactionary, autocratic, anti-democratic, anti-republican, and authoritarian ideas — up to and even including literal theocracy, military dictatorship, and absolute monarchy.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Downplayed with Johnny Reb. It's clear that he doesn't believe that slavery was good (unlike his predecessor the Cavalry Officer, who mocked Atun-Shei for thinking slavery is wrong) or think that other races are inferior (except when possessed by Klaus the Nazi), and he does what he does because he genuinely loves his heritage. At the same time, though, he spreads harmful misinformation and clings to outdated historiography because it's the only way for him to feel guilt-free in the process, and as such he's hostile toward Billy Yank for shattering his comfortable view of the past. In several instances it's clear that he prefers talking about Confederate military history to why the Confederacy existed in the first place because it's less morally dubious.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Episode 3 of Frozen '50s Man, "The Corsican Dildo", is one to The Maltese Falcon (1941). It features Dick getting roped into machinations to claim a priceless object just as Sam Spade did in the movie. Just like in the film, the Dildo turns out to be a fake, and the criminals decide to make off after the real one, but unlike the film, the woman was actually innocent of his partner's murder... but Dick needed something to show his bosses, so he scapegoated her.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Two examples from Frozen '50s Man: Bing Fluffernutter, Dick Jett's old partner in the FBI, tells Dick that he looks cute today, has a rather flamboyant manner, and is completely immune to Miss Dubois' charms. It's never elaborated upon, but it's unclear whether he's Camp Gay or Camp Straight. If Dick was comfortable working with him, it's likely that he at least thought he was the latter. Thebes Karnak, who speaks with an...interesting accent, likes to put the head of his cane in his mouth, and outright claims that his sexuality is ambiguous. Becomes less ambiguous(at least in Dick's mind) when Dick discovers a ticket to a Judy Garland film festival in his wallet with the tagline "Bring your boyfriends!"note Garland was a noted LGBT ally in the '50s and '60s, to the point where gay men of the time used "Dorothy" as a code word for identifying each other. He's also clearly based on Joel Cairo from The Maltese Falcon (1941), who was gay in the source material but was toned down to (very strong) subtext in the film itself.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: In Episode 1 of Frozen '50s Man, the title character's investigation at one point leads him to Kit Thistle, the host of web series Paleontology Tube, who speaks in a ridiculously British accent. Kit looks a lot like Abigail Thorn,note (As in, how she looked before she came out as a transgender woman.) the British host of web series Philosophy Tube, and the one video shown of Paleontology Tube looks like equal parts Philosophy Tube and ContraPoints. Additionally, the murder victim and actual culprit is an expy of socialist streamer Vaush.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: In How New England Yankees Conquered the World, Brandon F made an appearance to talk about the Revolutionary War. Later on Brandon's channel, Atun-Shei made an appearance impersonating him in "Reconsidering the Historical Films of Mr Mel Gibson". One between his own characters happens in the Checkmate, Lincolnites! episode "Was it REALLY the WAR of NORTHERN AGGRESSION?!?!?!", where Johnny Reb gets possessed by Klaus the Nazi, only the have the latter exorcised from Johnny Reb's body by the Witchfinder-General. At the end of "Did the CONFEDERACY Have BETTER GENERALS?!?!?!", Klaus reappears on the set of Checkmate, Lincolnites! (after Johnny Reb and Billy Yank appear to separate for good), rearrangling the pieces of the chess game they were playing, specifically setting a Jefferson Davis chess piece upright.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_edd34386	type	Glowing Eyelights of Undeath
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_edd34386	comment	Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: In the Checkmate Lincolnites! episode "Klaus Resurrects the Army of the Confederate Dead", the confederate skeleton army have eerie, glowing red eyes (except for Jefferson Davis, who's more in a mummified state).
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ee8fb6c2	type	What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ee8fb6c2	comment	What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Invoked in "Overanalyzing Ravenous (1999)", where he makes cases for the film being anti-American, anti-capitalist, vegan propaganda, queer liberation, and feminist. Some readings were intended by the filmmakers, some are just interpretation, and some contradict the other readings to make their point.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In Ancient Aryans: The History of Crackpot N@zi Archeology he lists the achievements of ancient societies as "writing, pyramids, aqueducts, and man-boy-love."
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ef7d6bf	type	Hammy Herald
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_ef7d6bf	comment	Hammy Herald: When Johnny Reb shifts the topic to Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrestnote Who was also the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and was behind the Fort Pillow Massacre, he starts whooping and hollering and firing his colt pistol into the ceiling.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: In the Checkmate, Lincolnites! episode "TARIFFS and TAXES: The REAL Cause of the CIVIL WAR?!", Billy Yank uses a saber to open a bottle of whiskey.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_f771f23b	type	Battle Strip
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_f771f23b	comment	Battle Strip: Bill Racehate removes his shirt before engaging in Good Old Fisticuffs with Dick.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_f8961fd8	type	Fashion-Victim Villain
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_f8961fd8	comment	Fashion-Victim Villain: invoked He says that Vincent "Clawhammer" Witcher got his nickname from the two-tailed coat he always wore, which made him look like the back of a clawhammer. This was a coat usually reserved for formal occasions, which meant Witcher was wearing the equivalent of a tuxedo every day.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_f9977015	type	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_f9977015	comment	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: When Johnny Reb tries to argue that the Southern states had the legal right to secede from the Union as guaranteed in Article Xnote "It's Amendment X." of the Constitution, Billy Yank first says that it's a moot point because of Texas v. White, but whips out a pocket constitution to humor him. He then points out that the wording of the Tenth Amendment is an extremely broad rebuke of federal law and doesn't specifically say anything about secession. Johnny counters this by saying it's implied, but Billy Yank runs with that logic and points to Article 6, Section 2, which has been interpreted by the Supreme Court several times as implying that Federal Law supersedes State law, meaning that something like unilateral secession after a disliked presidential election result would be super duper illegal.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Parodied in "Frozen 50s Man ~ Episode 3", with Dick reminiscing about his old partner Bing Fluffernutters and calls him "straight as an arrow"...right before Fluffernutters tells him how cute he is.
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Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Johnny Reb's personality is based on Youtube comments, so the extent of his racism varies from episode to episode. One comment, however, was so racist that Atun-Shei decided that it didn't fit Johnny Reb, and wrote it as Klaus the Nazi possessing Johnny and having to be exorcised. Despite being an unapologetic admirer of the Confederacy and a proponent of the "Lost Cause" ideology, it's made clear that Johnny Reb believes that slavery was wrong, and that he would never openly express racist sentiments.
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